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Fat Chance by Roy Trumbull - Creative Commons Copyright 2009 Some rights reserved. Detective Abe Howard and his AI computer Maija are looking for a killer. Members of high society are slimming down by getting massaged. Their fat is being removed via the hungry hands of aliens. The story is set 50+ years into the future. The Colorado River is more like a stream. The population in So. Ca is greatly reduced. The number of casinos in Vegas was reduced in a high stakes poker game. There is no money...
Topics: Fat Chance, Roy Trumbull, fat eaters, detective, Maija, geek lit, drone attack, Las Vegas, Colorado...
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Sep 3, 2008
09/08
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This is an orientation lecture for those who've just moved to a state where the residents all have a stake in their exploitation and mistreatment and are convinced that it's a good idea to get the short end of the stick in perpetuity.
Topics: kickme, politics, kickme states, humor, satire, audio books, Roy Trumbull
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Sep 5, 2008
09/08
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The Meanness and Rationalization Party is vetting Vice-Presidential candidates. Medea is on the list even though she's had more than her share of bad press. How many votes can you get after you kill your children, poison your exes trophy bride, turn the kings murdered corpse into an entrée, and later attempt to poison your stepson?
Topics: Medea, vetting, politics, satire, campaign, vice president, audio book, Roy Trumbull
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Nov 6, 2009
11/09
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I think I had my first golf clubs when I was three. My dad, Barney Trumbull, was a dedicated golfer but I lacked the knack. That didn't keep me from playing with him on every golf course in Northern California. The Rattlesnake Hills Club is a thinly disguised real club. It combines the worst features of a number of courses I've been on. We bring back Joey, inventor of the P-Ball, who once again makes a game changing invention. Using a magic metal and his imagination, Joey fashions the perfect...
Topics: gahlumponium, magic, golf, imagination, Joey, Roy Trumbull, audio book, Rattlesnake Hills
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Jun 3, 2011
06/11
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It was writer Arthur C. Clarke who said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Ankal the witch is a story about a good witch and a bad witch. It takes place mostly in the present and pits our modern magic against the eye of newt tongue of frog kind. I took every opportunity in this story to poke fun at all the stuff we take too seriously. I expect no one will have any trouble with the wordplay. Ten years from now it will be as distant as Beowulf. The...
Topics: Ankal, witchcraft, Stevniak, Zarpi, magic, humor, witches, wizards, fantasy, Fright&Barrow,...
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Sep 20, 2008
09/08
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A young man is dead and his friends meet to attempt to decode a message found in his effects.
Topics: codes, ciphesr, computers, mystery, audio book, Roy Trumbull
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Aug 14, 2012
08/12
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The city kids miss a lot that country kids grow up knowing. Like getting a hen to lay a high density hard drive.
Topics: gallus gallus, sci-fi, hard drive
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Feb 25, 2010
02/10
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One would think that the way an FM station makes money is by selling commercials. For decades the owners have made money by selling the station to a bigger fool. Now the biggest fools own all the stations. This story goes back to the early 1960s and how it all began.
Topics: FM radio, trade-outs, due bills, radio schools, limited partnerships, adult content
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Oct 5, 2008
10/08
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A business scheme based upon truth brings riches to those employing it. Imagine a can of high fructose corn syrup cola with a detailed list of all the medical ills drinking it will cause.
Topics: cola, HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, fiction, audio book, death rockers, Roy Trumbull
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Oct 29, 2006
10/06
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A twisted fairy tale that introduces one to the fictions of Wall Street and the legal fictions that make them possible.
Topics: humor, Jack and the beanstock, legal fictions, Wall Street, crooks in Congress, Roy Trumbull,...
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Apr 4, 2009
04/09
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Joey visits an MRI machine and learns something about how it images soft tissue. Joey's Uncle Walter has vanished and in his uncles lab he finds something like a home brew MRI machine but it's much different. He figures out it's a portal but to where?
Topics: Joey, MRI, Sci-Fi, fantasy, audio book, Roy Trumbull
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Jan 24, 2009
01/09
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Joey falls asleep and finds himself on a rail car in 1862 with a young Thomas Edison while the Civil War rages. Because Detroit is adjacent to Canada it was a major station on the Underground Railroad and the crossing point for fugitive slaves. I added mention in the story of the Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King. He was responsible for keeping California from supporting the confederates. For 22 years I worked one block away from his crypt at his church. I don't recall hearing about him in...
Topics: Joey, Edison, adventure, fiction, historical, Civil War, slavery, Starr King, underground railroad
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Dec 15, 2009
12/09
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These American Indian Tales were collected and edited by Cornelius Mathews and first published in 1869. The narrator is Roy Trumbull. The text is available at www.gutenberg.org.
Topics: American Indian, Indian, folklore, fairy tales, children's stories, audio book
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Dec 28, 2008
12/08
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"Edison, His Life and Inventions" by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin Published in 1929. Abridged and read by Roy Trumbull. Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) The complete text is available at www.gutenberg.org. The story of the man who invented over 1000 things including the dual well kitchen sink, wax paper, the quadraplex telegraph, the carbon transmitter and circuitry that made the telephone practical, the phonograph, movies, the first efficient power generator and the...
Topics: Edison, inventor, inventions, patents, light bulb, telegraph, chemistry, electricity, movies,...
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09/08
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copyright 2008 by Roy Trumbull A young lady is proud of the fact she was named Miss Moose Meat at a beauty contest in Alaska. In fact she never fails to mention the fact, much to the chagrin of her brother. It acts as a boy friend screening process. If a guy is still interested after he hears the tale, then maybe he's the one.
Topics: Alaska, moose, satire, love, beauty contest, love, college, Roy Trumbull
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These stories were selected from those collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. Reading these stories gave me a chance to regress to the accent I heard as a child in the Outer Mission District of San Francisco. Those parts of the stories written in dialect use yez for you and axe for ask and I don't recall hearing that in San Francisco. Of the Celts, the Irish were the ones who truly savored stories. And they would take a tale from the middle east or Germany and make it Irish. The text for these...
Topics: Celtic, Fairy Tales, children's stories
After a fairly brief and appropriately poetically abstract introduction, Roy Trumbull plays Bob Dylan’s fifth studio album “Bringing It All Back Home,” in its entirety. This program was recorded on April 17, 1965, just a month after the LP had been released on Columbia Records. Long recognized as the album in which Dylan embraced rock and roll and turned from writing political protest songs to those more personal or allegorical in nature, “Bringing It All Back Home” featured one side...
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Topics: KPFA-FM, Folk Music, Music
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Oct 13, 2009
10/09
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This story was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction in June 1999 and later appeared in Year's Best Science Fiction 5 - HarperPrism David G. Hartwell, editor. The story contains language that may be considered obscene. A technology is developed to supplant drug treatment of concentration disorders and to level out mood spikes and disruptive behavior. A chip is implanted in the brain that takes over body maintenance and preserves a semblance of social graces when the subject's attention...
Topics: brain implant, therapy, mood disorders, vegetables, Doctorow, Sci-Fi, switched off, zero function
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Oct 23, 2013
10/13
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This is the audiobook edition of my self-published science fiction short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also...
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
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Oct 23, 2013
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These are the MP3s for the audiobook edition of my short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also masters my podcast....
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
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Oct 23, 2013
10/13
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This is the audiobook edition of my self-published science fiction short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also...
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
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Dec 7, 2010
12/10
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This is the audiobook edition of my self-published science fiction short story collection, With a Little Help . I tapped many voice actor friends ( Neil Gaiman , Mur Lafferty , Wil Wheaton , Leo Laporte , Emily Hurson , Patrick Nielsen Hayden , Hugh AD Spencer , Mary Robinette Kowal , JC Hutchins , Roy Trumbull , Jonathan Coulton , Spider Robinson , Jesse Brown , and Russell Galen ) to record the stories in this volume, and their recordings were mastered by John Taylor Williams, who also...
Topics: with a little help, audiobook, cory doctorow, science fiction, self publishing
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Sep 17, 2007
09/07
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The tale of a bird half parrot and half penguin who is considered a living god by some and a Hollywood star by others. With his friends Juanita and Ruffa the dog he sails in an ancient Egyptian craft from an island in the Antarctic up to the large penguin colony at Punta Tombo, Argentina and is discovered by a movie company shooting yet another penguin movie. Copyright 2007 by Roy Trumbull I was into the third or fourth chapter of this story and I still had no satisfactory name for my hero. I'd...
Topics: parrot, penguin, Sethites, Punta Tombo, Antarctic, volcano, Bird Island, children's stories, audio...
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Jul 1, 2008
07/08
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A collection of stories first published in 1908 by Annie Trumbull Slosson. They were first told by a 13 year old girl in a southern village who had an amazing talent for making powerful points with her simple stories. Ms. Slosson took them down with attention to the young ladies' dialect. (The author was my distant cousin.) The text for this book is available at www.gutenberg.org. Search author for Slosson.
Topics: parables, allegories, folk-lore, stories, audio book, dialect, American south, Annie Trumbull...
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May 21, 2011
05/11
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Years after the Xenobots had been vanquished and their home planet destroyed, the human-Ahmanyan alliance discovered, to its dismay, that the Second Xenobot War was not, in fact, truly over. The Xenobot's great weapon that had worked so efficiently in the long ago War of the First Races continued to run on its own, but like so much of the Xenobot's technology, it was wearing out. A sudden collapse of this technology could bring about a catastrophe of unprecedented, perhaps galaxy-wide...
Topics: Starman, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Xenobots, Tharsos, First Races
Roy Trumbull presents the first of four programs dedicated to Leadbelly’s last recording sessions, in which the singer and musician performs many of the songs he had learned or written during his life. Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was born to a poor African American family sometime in the waning years of the 19h century, (ca. 1888). A large, strong man with a booming voice, and an ability to play the 12 string guitar, Leadbelly spent much of his early life, working hard,...
Topics: KPFA-FM, Music, Folk Music, Leadbelly
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Aug 26, 2006
08/06
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Aphorisms to go. Impress your friends and co-workers with all the wisdom of the ancients and moderns.
Topics: aphorisms, wise sayings, SASP, Roy Trumbull
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Nov 13, 2010
11/10
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Rootabaga Stories is a children's book written by Carl Sandburg and published in 1922. It is full of delightful nonsense.
Topics: Sandburg, Rootabaga Country, children's stories, nonsense
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10/06
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The cell phone has become the default object of religious devotion in our times. Are there cell phones in heaven? Brother Wooley of the "Church of the Cell Phone" answers your questions.
Topics: cell phone, church, religion, humor, Roy Trumbull
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Aug 30, 2006
08/06
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This book, first published under the title, "Wendy and Peter" was written 7 years after the play first appeared. It follows the same story line but fleshes out the characters far more than was possible in the play. Barrie was a very creative and playful writer and you'll discover a Peter you've never known and a Hook who was haunted by his public school (i.e.: private school) experiences. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org
Topics: audio books, Barrie, Peter Pan, children's stories
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Aug 28, 2006
08/06
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A classic collection of stories of India by Rudyard Kipling. In recent years the publishers have cut the Jungle Book up and created a book for each story.
Topics: audio books, Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, India, children's stories
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Jun 23, 2010
06/10
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This is the fourth Oz story of those written by L. Frank Baum. In it Dorothy and her cousin Zeb are swallowed up by an Earthquake crevice and fall slowly down to a strange land where they are shortly joined by the Wizard whose circus balloon has suffered the same fate. They have many adventures before finally being transported to Oz by the magic of Ozma.
Topics: Oz, L.Frank Baum, Dorothy, Wizard of Oz, magic, adventure, humbug
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Feb 29, 2008
02/08
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Indian Old-Man Stories collected by Frank Bird Linderman A perfect deity (Manitou) is always a problem because the world isn't perfect. The Indians solved that problem by attributing the creation of the world and all its creatures to Old-Man. Old-Man (also called Napa) was full of mischief, he told lies, he got into trouble, and finally became such a problem that Manitou built a lodge for him and told him to stay in it. In these stories, War Eagle, the medicine man, tells his grandchildren why...
Topics: Indians, Indian Old-Man Stories, folklore, American Indian, Linderman, audio book, Indian Why...
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Aug 29, 2006
08/06
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This is the second of the Oz stories. No Dorothy, but a lot of new characters and a surprise ending. We meet Tip, old Mombi, Jack Pumkinhead, The Sawhorse, the Wogglebug, General Jinjur, and finally Ozma of Oz. Returning characters include the Tin Woodsman and the Scarecrow. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.com. Search authors for Baum, L. Frank.
Topics: audio books, Oz, Baum, children's stories
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Aug 28, 2006
08/06
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They may look like ordinary house plants but they are in fact the deadly pre-invasion advance guard of the Terra-Cots from planet Erg.
Topics: science fiction, fantasy, humor, sci-fi
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Oct 23, 2006
10/06
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These are traditional folk tales from Norway. The Bear and the Fox The Boy Who Went to the North Wind East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Giant's Mountain
Topics: audio book, Norse, Norway, folk tales
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Sep 9, 2006
09/06
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I wrote this after seeing one too many ads aimed directly at the rubes to get them to request script for expensive meds.
Topics: drugs, medicine, health care, humor, Roy Trumbull
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Apr 18, 2007
04/07
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Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X by Victor Appleton. Victor Appleton was a house name owned by the publisher. Several authors actually wrote the Tom Swift stories. The bulk of the stories were completed by 1941. This story is from a second group and was published in 1961. The Cold War is very much evident in the plot. The most obvious anachronism is that throughout the story telephones are on walls or desks but never in pockets. Tom cranks out a steady stream of high-tech inventions that...
Topics: Tom Swift, Planet X, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
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Nov 12, 2007
11/07
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The country is experiencing an epidemic of Kidsheimers in which adults at work turn into children. It is very hush hush. Even the President has it. It is the root cause behind subprime mortgages. When I finished this story in the fall of 2007 I thought everyone could see the coming train wreck. As we've learned since, it was invisible to the Fed, Congress, Wall Street and a lot of banks who should have known better.
Topics: Kidsheimers,humor,satire,whales,disasters, subprime mortgages, investments, Roy Trumbull
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12/06
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These are the gritty originals of a few of the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. They lack the "improvements" made by later redactors. Rapunzel becomes pregnant by the prince. The wicked queen in Snow White dies wearing red hot steel slippers. There is no fairy godmother or pumpkin coach in Cinderella. The step sisters use self mutilation to fit into the gold slipper (not glass). At the end of the story they are blinded. I believe the translation credit for these stories...
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Topics: Grimm, fairy tales, traditional German stories, children's stories
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May 25, 2008
05/08
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A teenager invents a golf ball that can't be lost.
Topics: golf, fantasy, children's stories, audio books, teenagers, Roy Trumbull
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Sep 27, 2006
09/06
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This forecast is based upon existing trends and the certainty that lobbyists will keep anything useful from ever coming out of Washington, D.C..
Topics: weather, global warming, humor, Roy Trumbull
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Oct 8, 2006
10/06
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This is the first of the stories about the man who could talk to animals. The stories were taken from letters Lofting wrote home to his children while he served in World War I. They were later fleshed out and published. The text of this book may be found at www.gutenberg.com. Search authors for Lofting, Hugh.
Topics: audio books, animal language, Dr. Dolittle, Hugh Lofting, children's stories, animals
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Mar 21, 2008
03/08
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Roy Trumbull
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A chapter from the 1841 book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay. This story describes the financial bubble that engulfed all of France from 1717 to 1720. You may take comfort in the fact that there is a precedent for our recent sub-prime idiocy
Topics: John Law, Regent, speculation, stocks, Mississippi, Company of the Indies, bubble, audio book
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Oct 20, 2006
10/06
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Roy Trumbull
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Despite the title, this is not a happy story. It is a very sad but beautiful story. At the age of 4 I wanted to hear it night after night.
Topics: audio book, Happy Prince, swallow, Oscar Wilde, children's stories
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Jan 12, 2008
01/08
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These are classic stories collected by William Elliot Griffis. The text is available at www.gutenberg.org .Search author for Griffis.
Topics: Wales, Welsh, Fairy tales, fairies, folklore, Griffis
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This is an adventure in the undersea world. Mayre, whose nickname is Trot, and Cap'n Bill are turned into mermaids through fairy magic and visit Aquareine, the mermaid queen. While on a tour of the marvels of the deep they are made prisoners of Zog the Terrible, a magician who is part man, beast, serpent, and fish. He is out to destroy them in a contest of magic. The text for this book may be found at www.gutenberg.org . Search Baum
Topic: mermaids,magic,L.Frank Baum,children's stories,audio books,Zog the Terrible,Trot,Cap'n Bill
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Oct 26, 2006
10/06
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These are some notes on the differences between the Jewish bible and the Christian "Old Testament". The order of the books is different. The names of the books are different. The leading names within the stories are different. The translation problems are considerable. What the bible says or may not say remains problematic.
Topics: bible, Christian, Jewish, translation, Roy Trumbull
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This story by H.G. Wells, is about a time traveler and also about the extension of class distinctions from Wells' time into the far future. The Eloi are the descendants of the idle rich whose needs are taken care of by the Morlocks, the workers. The Morlocks, who dwell underground, have a need for fresh meat. When there is no moon, the Morlocks own the night. The text for this story may be found at www.gutenberg.org. Search authors for Wells, H.G.. The book had no chapter titles. I created the...
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Topics: audio books, science fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, H.G. Wells, time travel
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Feb 19, 2011
02/11
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A humorous poem about a short lived society of men who favored brawls over polite discussion. The Stanislaus River flows from the Sierras down to the Central Valley of California where it joins the San Joaquin River. The city of Modesto is in Stanislaus County.
Topics: Stanislaus, Bret Harte, poem, humor
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